Institute faculty leadership Nevin Cohen, Nicholas Freudenberg, and Senior Fellow Jan Poppendieck recently published an essay on food policy in spring 2017 volume of the Journal of Food Law & Policy. The essay, “Food Justice in the Trump Era: Priorities for Urban Food Advocates,” discusses the future of food policy under the Trump administration. “This [...]
This post also appears on Civil Eats. A recent discussion of how to unite food activists in New York City with the larger Trump resistance offers lessons and tools to create positive change everywhere. By Mark Bittman and Nicholas Freudenberg In the four months since Trump took office, many of our fears have come true. [...]
Trump’s inauguration, coupled with Republican Congressional control, requires every constituency to analyze the threats to the gains of the last eight years. This is particularly urgent for New Yorkers involved in eliminating food insecurity and hunger, fighting malnutrition and health inequality, and ensuring a sustainable food system with good jobs. Anticipating efforts to undermine food [...]
Diana Robinson This past week has been very challenging for me as a daughter of Afro-Caribbean immigrants and as an organizer for social, economic, and racial justice. The policies that Donald Trump has said he will enact would devastate so many communities - immigrant, Muslim, black, LQBTQ, and many more. And for food [...]
Dear Readers: It will take us all some time to analyze the full implications of the outcome of the election and to understand the effects on food justice and health equity. As founders of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute at the CUNY School of Public Health, as public health researchers and advocates, and as [...]
